These are from the “American” Exhibition.
There are more of the “24″ Expo which I’ll post over the coming days. Some fantastic scrap quilts and houses too. The appliqué on some of them is just ………………………………….
In 1999 Jeanne Williamson decided to make one small quilt every week for a year, made exclusively from found objects. 7 years later she had 365 small art quilts, 52 of which are featured in The Uncommon Quilter .
I was a bit dubious about this book at first, but was soon hooked. They are so easy!
I found it amazing. The things you can make quilts out of – paper, bus and metro tickets, potato and onion bag netting, leaves, the bark from birch trees, sushi grass, plastic carrier bags – the list is endless. It has certainly expanded my quilting horizons.
She has divided the book into sections – plastic, paper, surface design and fibre – the description and how to make the quilts up are well written and easy to understand (which is more than I can say for some quilting books).
I love the way she has told the story behind the making of each quilt. Heartbeat (right) was so called after she noticed the red netting that covers clementine orange boxes. The discovery practically gave her heart palpitations!!!!
On her Amsterdam and Paris trip she sewed pieces of netting together to make 9 pockets, collected objects along the way and then stitched the pockets closed.
I can’t see myself making an art quilt quite yet – got too much on my plate at the moment – but I’m eyeing up the potato and onion bags and seeing plastic carrier bags in a different light.
If you are into art and journal quilts then this book is a must have! At $25 I think it is a bargain!
You can read Jeanne’s blog here, and see the other quilts here.
Bonjour or bon soir as the case may be.
You know I said I wasn’t going to show you the ongoing progress of the latest quilt. Well, I decided to show it today as I’ve got a bit of a problem.
Just a small one you understand. Nothing drastic. I mean it is surmountable and I can deal with it (I hope).
I’ve run out of background material!
So here is current project.
We can’t get into Périgueux until next week and I just hope to goodness that the QS has still got some left. If not it’s down to searching for it online and for the life of me I can’t remember what it is called. I only went and threw the selvedge away didn’t I. Stupid stupid stupid!
More WiP. Up to date progress on My Quilting Adventure. I was up to midnight doing this last night. Best friend was texting me at 10.30 pm with SOS’s. Text’s going backwards and forwards between here and Germany until the small hours so had to have something to keep me occupied.
I meant to say thank you to everyone for their lovely comments and advice about design walls. I going to go for Joyce’s suggestion which is practical in a house where you can’t hammer or drill holes in walls! Polystyrene tiles stuck onto a wall and a sheet or batting pinned to that. Sounds like the best way forward don’t you think?
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I’m in the process of designing a permanent design wall.
The white sheet held up by will power over the cookery book cupboard is ok temporarily, but it keeps on falling down and when I need to get to the books I can’t!
We’ve got lots of old cork tiles lying about the place and I thought of sticking them to a wall and then pinning the sheet on.
I can’t have anything too difficult to make up. With walls somewhere between 1 and 2m thick it is impossible to hammer in nails or drill holes.
So answers on a postcard please and a link to a photo might be helpful too.
TIA
1st September is now marked on the calendar with a No More Fabric warning, especially after this find at the
Vide Grenier at Creyssac on Sunday.
It must be about 3 metres long and the price was so ridiculously cheap I couldn’t resist it.
A thunderstorm is brewing up but before I log out how about this for a quilt design? It was wrapped round a bottle of wine DS-D bought back from Italy.
I’ve dropped my precious camera! We took it into the SAV at Auchan yesterday who said (with a lovely smile) that it is cheaper to get a new one than get this one repaired (I promptly burst into tears). So I am sitting here trying to get some sense out of HP Support, in both English and French.
This is one of the last photos I took with it before the dreadful event.
I have quilted the middle three rows (click here for a photo of the quilt in its entirety) and have a few more names to add before doing the top and the bottom lines. I am stitching the ditch of every single seam which is taking an age, but at least my stitching is getting better.
Then some big Fantabulous Fans I think for the border, some black binding (do you think black will work or should I do something a bit more jazzy?) et voila!
I wasn’t too happy with the material I bought for Tamzin’s wedding quilt. It just doesn’t feel right. So I ventured into a QS on Friday and, oh my goodness, fell in love with the most gorgeous Tamzin type material and matching thread. Et maintenant le appareil photo numérique est en panne! So you will have to wait to see what transpires.
More as and when, but from now on the posts will be photoless (sob).
